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PROCLAMATIONS — F E B. 2, 1959

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ENLARGING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CABRILLO NATIONAL MONUMENT, CALIFORNIA BY THE P R E S I D E N T

OF THE UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA

February 2, 1959 [No. 3273]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego County, California, was established by Proclamation No. 1255 of October 14, 1913 (38 Stat. 1965), on approximately one-half acre of land that, along with other lands, had been set aside for military purposes by an order approved by the President on February 26, 1852; and WHEREAS the present area of the monument is not adequate for the proper care and management of the historical landmarks and historical objects situated therein; and WHEREAS approximately eighty acres of land contiguous to and completely surrounding the present site of the monument and constituting a part of the lands set aside for military purposes by the order of February 26, 1852, are no longer needed for military purposes; and WHEREAS those lands are essential to the proper care and management of the Cabrillo National Monument and it is in the public interest to redefine the boundaries of, and to add those surrounding lands to, the monument: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of Congress approved June 8, 1906, 34 Stat. 225 (16 U.S.C. 431), do hereby proclaim that the following-described tract of land, which comprises the original site of the monument and the additional lands needed for the purposes stated above, shall constitute the Cabrillo National Monument: Beginning a t Navy Monument " E " as that monument is shown on District Public Works Office D r a w i n g N o. N D 1 1 / N 1 - 1 ( 9 1), dated December 29, 1947, and on file in the District Public Works Office, Eleventh Naval District, 1220 Pacific H i g h w a y; Monument " E " also bears South 8 1 ° 2 1 ' 2 8 " West, 1235.48 feet from tj.S. Coast and Geodetic Monument " P o i n t Loma Lighthouse (old)"; thence from the Point of Beginning, North 8 9 ° 3 1 ' 3 5 " East, 908.02 feet; thence South 0 ° 2 8 ' 2 5 " East, 410.00 feet; thence North 8 9 ° 3 1 ' 3 5 " East, 278.27 feet; thence North 6 4 ° 5 0 ' 3 6 " E a s t 314.30 feet; thence North 4 6 ° 1 9 ' 3 7 " West, 137.50 feet to the beginning of a t a n g e n t curve concave to the East, having a radius of 170.00 feet and a central angel of 6 4 ° 0 0 '; thence northerly along the arc of that curve a distance of 189.89 feet; thence North 1 7 ° 4 0 ' 2 3 " East, 8.47 feet; thence North 8 9 ° 3 1 ' 3 5 " East, 630.37 feet; thence North 0 ° 2 8 ' 2 5 " West, 275.14 feet; thence South 8 9 ° 3 1 ' 3 5 " West, 100.00 feet; thence North 0 ° 2 8 ' 2 5 " West, 275.30 feet; thence North 8 9 ° 3 1 ' 3 5 " East, 100.00 feet; thence North 0 ° 2 8 ' 2 5 " West, 903.36 feet; thence South 8 9 ° 3 1 ' 3 5 " West, 2488.57 feet to the ordinary high water mark of the Pacific Ocean; thence Southeasterly along that ordinary high water m a r k to a point in a line that bears South 8 9 ° 3 1 ' 3 5 " West, from Monument " E "; thence North 8 9 ° 3 1 ' 3 5 " East, 165.00 feet to the Point of Beginning, Being in the C o u n t y of San Diego, State of California.

Proclamation No. 1255 establishing the Cabrillo National Monument is amended accordingly. The withdrawal order of February 26, 1852, is hereby revoked as to the lands described above. The lands added to the monument by this proclamation are hereby transferred from the jurisdiction of the Department of the Navy to the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior.

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